Gedit: make links clickable (with Ruby script)

Gedit is my favorite text editor in Ubuntu. It’s almost perfect for me.
I use it for fast files editing or simple scripts writing when I don’t want to open my IDE.
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But I feel uncomfortable with Gedit when I cannot click links directly in text. We can fix it easily with External Tools plugin. All we need is to write a simple script (I prefer Ruby) and run it through External Tools.

Write Ruby script

  1. Create click_link.rb in your home directory.

  2. Paste following text to click_link.rb 

    
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby

v1 = ARGV[0]
require "uri"
url =  URI.extract(v1)[0]
system("firefox #{url.to_s}")

  3. Do not forget to make click_link.rb executable 

    chmod +x click_link.rb

Create External Tool for Gedit

  1. Enable External Tools plugin in Preferences
  2. Tools > Manage External Tools
  3. Add new tool

  4. Paste following text 

    
#!/bin/sh

/<your_path_to_file>/click_link.rb $GEDIT_CURRENT_LINE

  5. Set Input = Current line and set desired Shortcut key
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Thats it.

Now just set your cursor on the line with a valid URL and press your shortcut key. Firefox should open your URL.
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You can do a lot of interesting things with External Tools. Anything you want!
For example, you can grep selected word from another document or logs.

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